Steps to install Rkhunter(Rootkit hunter) on server – Linux

Before starting the Rkhunter installation we must have an idea about the ‘Rootkit’. A rootkit is a stealthy type of software, typically malicious, designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection and enable continued privileged access to a computer. The word rootkit is a concatenation of “root” (Means the administrative privilege) and “kit” (represents the software kit). Rootkit detection is difficult because a rootkit may be able to subvert the software that is intended to find it.

Rkhunter(Rootkit hunter) is an opensource scanner for Linux system to find out if any rootkit infection is there.
Do follow the steps below to install Rkhunter.

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